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1 Senior Leadership Teams: What It Takes to Make Them Great Ruth Wageman

2 Introduction Welcome! Dilemma for CEOs: CEO job has become too big for one person, BUT Leading a team of leaders is a very daunting task Embarked on a 9-year collaboration of practitioners and academics Our focus: How CEOs can draw on the full range of capabilities of their leadership team to Help formulate and execute a coherent strategy Realize the company s objectives Respond quickly to changing market conditions 2

4 Plan of Session Our research: 6 key issues that arise when a CEO contemplates leading his or her team of leaders 6 conditions CEOs can put in place to have great leadership teams 3 Essentials 3 Enablers Illustrate through real examples how the challenges can be dealt with effectively Then, open to exploration with all participants 4

5 Challenge 1: Do I want a team? The first challenge for the CEO is: Do I want a team? How many teams and what for? How do they interrelate? 5

6 Four Kinds Of Leadership Teams Decision-making team Coordinating team Consultative team Information-sharing (alignment) team 6

7 Condition 1: A Real Team Bounded: Clear who is and who is not on the leadership team ESSENTIALS ENABLERS

9 Condition 1: A Real Team Bounded: Clear who is and who is not on the leadership team Stable: Membership is kept intact for some period of time Interdependent: Members share accountability for a common purpose ESSENTIALS ENABLERS

10 Creating a Real Leadership Team(s) The Way Forward: Form multiple teams for separate functions (core decision-making, coordinative, information sharing) Create interlocking, not hierarchical relations Reflect the relationships in the names of the teams 10

11 Challenge 2: What s the purpose of the team? Why articulating a compelling purpose for a top team is hard: Leadership team purpose is not the same as the purpose of organization Leadership team purpose is not just This is the strategy: execute that. Conceptual task: How do you express the unique added value of this team? 11

12 Condition 2: A Compelling Purpose Clear: Can imagine what it would look like if we achieved it Challenging: A stretch of capability to achieve it, but not impossible Consequential: Important impact on the success of the organization and on the lives and work of others ESSENTIALS ENABLERS

14 A Compelling Purpose The Way Forward: Expressing the unique added value of this team to execute the strategy What decisions? Make it a very short list. Myth: Great top teams deal with strategic issues only Reality: They deal with mission critical issues, including tactical ones 14

15 Challenge 3: Who should be on my team? Why CEOs wind up with the wrong people on the team Title does not mean a seat at the table ( All my direct reports ) Excessive inclusiveness (representing all areas by giving a seat) Huge emotional challenge to remove members Held hostage by star individual performers 15

16 Condition 3: The Right People A well-composed team Members are people who can take an enterprise perspective Members have the ability to work collaboratively All the derailers are removed: those who undermine others bring out the worst in others exhibit a lack of integrity are unable to see others perspectives ESSENTIALS ENABLERS

17 The Right People The Way Forward: Identify key skills and collaborative capabilities needed for this team purpose Have the hard conversations Onboard members with their enterprise and team roles 17

18 Summary: The 3 Essentials Real Team Right People The ESSENTIALS Compelling Direction 18

19 Challenge 4: Members think meetings are a waste of time Why it happens: Group is too large, meeting purpose ill-defined What s on the agenda is too much and too trivial Process of agenda-setting: What do you want to talk about? Poorly structured meeting time 19

20 Condition 4: Solid Structure Right size: Keep it small Meaningful team tasks: The work members do together is vital and connected to the strategy Norms of conduct: Members understand what must always be done, what must never be done ESSENTIALS ENABLERS

22 Creating a Solid Structure The Way Forward: CEO chooses the tasks on the agenda Members distribute material in advance for key discussions CEO sets norms of preparation Leader must model norms; Won t take otherwise 22

23 Challenge 5: The group is not productive together What gets in the way? Poorly designed information systems: The three-inch binder Rewards that undermine collaboration: Feelings of unfairness or lack of trust Working context creates obstacles Poor space Little time 23

24 Condition 5: A Supportive Context Rewards for team excellence Rewards do not themselves create collaboration They can be a powerful negative; they can divide (status, fairness) Information: What data the team needs in a form they can use Education: Training and technical consultation to build expertise Material resources: The space, time, and stuff for working together on hard decisions ESSENTIALS ENABLERS

25 Providing Support Resources to a Leadership Team The Way Forward: Get well-organized data and insist on high-quality staff work to support team decision making Pay attention to entire reward package: Status, prestige and image consequences of rewards matter for senior leaders Put careful thought into what the team needs for the kind of collaboration you want 25

26 Challenge 6: The team is stuck Signs of the sixth challenge: All the other conditions are in place CEO sees little or no progress in the kinds of challenges the team can handle together, signs of wheel-spinning But I m having all my team members coached, why isn t the team getting faster and better at making decisions together? 26

27 How CEOs Apportion Their Attention Leader Focus* * These scores are relative ranks; it is not possible to score high on all of them. 1 Coaching Individuals Coaching the Team Structuring the Team External Activities 27

28 Condition 6: Expert Team Coaching The Way Forward: Team coaching as an entity Providing coaching and being a participant in the discussion at same time is often too hard consider an external coach Demand of yourself the same work ethic about leading the team as you would have about every other constituency ESSENTIALS ENABLERS

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